Saturday, December 4, 2010

Word Count

Ahem.

Just a brief note to update you on how the work is progressing. So far, every book has been longer than the one before. The first book was about 75,000 words, and Mortal Coil was over 100,000. With Book 6, I'm planning on continuing that trend, but I don't know by how much.

I've been working away at the first section of the story, the first quarter of the book, dipping in an out of scenes and chapters... Even though, officially, I started this book on November 6th, a lot of things have been taking up my time, so I've really only been able to seriously write in the past week. And in the past week I've written almost 20,000 words. That's roughly a fifth of the book, and I've done it in six days.

1,2, and 3rd! That just shows how amazing i am. Totally, and awesomely amazing in every way humanly possible. I am probably the greatest minion ever. (and i don't have a shortage of self-esteem either) heh-heh

Wow I've never commented this early. So anyway, good luck on the writing Mr. Landy! Your a real inspiration. Maybe i should start writing a book. I have a few good ideas. If I ever publish it, can I advertise in a comment? ................. I'll take that as a yes!

Oh BTW!!!! For anyone who cares, I just wrote a FanFiction on Skulduggery Pleasant on Fanfiction.net! it's called Brother of Mine by Raven Quill Dipped In Ink. Read it it's good! Skulduggery has an older brother and he's going to embarrass him big time int the next chapter!

I have a suggestion for you! If from now on you're going to be writing in November time because of the September releases, I know of a competition during the month of November which I think you'll LOVE.It's called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and the aim of it is to write 50,000 words in 30 days! A novel in 30 days :D

And if you win, you get a code to get your book published for free! :D A lovely book written by you in print!

Even though you can do that anyway cos you're like an author, I thought i'd tell you about it cuz it's fun to do :3

... WOW. 20k in 6 days? DID YOU EAT AND SLEEP AT ALL?!??! O.O Golden God must keep himself HEALTHY!!!

Sorry for making you post so much Derek, sir. It's just really cool that you come on every now and then. It's awesome to have that rare golden chance to chat with you.I have also found that there are a lot of great people here too. Many have great writning talent. One of them is Hellboy. I know that you said you would never read fanfic and you had great and understandable reasons. But someday, and I hope soon, I hope you read Hellboy's fanfic.I know others would hope for the same from you. I would not. I would rather you read Hellboy's and then maybe someone else's over mine. I know you can not do this now as you are writing and I don't want anything to slow you down. But be warned....:)After that I will petition on Hellboy's behalf to encourage you to read his work.

We were talking about it in foods and if the Canadian government banned foreign foods, Canadians would either die, try and leave, or become cannibals. The only thing we'd have to eat is, maple syrup, grass, trees, back bacon, and that's about it. We'd be royally screwed.

I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.John DiefenbakerFrom the Canadian Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.Will Ferguson

What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs.Anonymous

You Canadians have given us such hope to carry on. We admire your bravery. You are the neighbour of such a rich, powerful country, and yet you don't mind clashing with them. Well, that gives us more confidence.Pedro Gutierrez